Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

by Herman Melville

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First American edition. Frontispiece chart. xv, i , 17 -389, 1 ; xv -xxiii, i ads ; 16 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends with closed tear to head of spine, corners worn, light foxing to text throughout. BAL 13656. Item #263731 The first American edition of Melville’s second novel, in

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